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Kiowa Military Societies: Ethnohistory and Ritual Volume 263

Name: Kiowa Military Societies: Ethnohistory and Ritual Volume 263
Brand: University of Oklahoma Press
SKU: 9780806190099
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Contributors:

William C. Meadows

Publisher:

University of Oklahoma Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science, History

Book Subcategory:

Ethnic Studies, United States, Indigenous Peoples in the Americas

Book Topic:

American, State & Local

Series:

Civilization of the American Indian #263

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Release Date:

2022-01-04

ISBN 13:

9780806190099

Weight:

1.8 lbs

Size:

10.00 x 7.00 x 0.96 inches

Pages:

476

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Warrior culture has long been an important facet of Plains Indian life. For Kiowa Indians, military societies have special significance. They serve not only to honor veterans and celebrate and publicize martial achievements but also to foster strong role models for younger tribal members. To this day, these societies serve to maintain traditional Kiowa values, culture, and ethnic identity.

Previous scholarship has offered only glimpses of Kiowa military societies. William C. Meadows now provides a detailed account of the ritual structures, ceremonial composition, and historical development of each society: Rabbits, Mountain Sheep, Horses Headdresses, Black Legs, Skunkberry /Unafraid of Death, Scout Dogs, Kiowa Bone Strikers, and Omaha, as well as past and present women's groups.

Two dozen illustrations depict personages and ceremonies, and an appendix provides membership rosters from the late 1800s.

The most comprehensive description ever published on Kiowa military societies, this work is unmatched by previous studies in its level of detail and depth of scholarship. It demonstrates the evolution of these groups within the larger context of American Indian history and anthropology, while documenting and preserving tribal traditions.

About the Author
Meadows, William C.: -

William C. Meadows is Professor of Anthropology and Native American Studies at Missouri State University, Springfield. A scholar of Plains Indian cultures, he is the author of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Military Societies: Enduring Veterans, 1800 to the Present; Kiowa Ethnogeography; and The First Code Talkers: Native American Communicators in World War I.

Kiowa Military Societies: Ethnohistory and Ritual Volume 263

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